Staff Frontend Engineer, Crypto

Who we are

About Stripe

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies—from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone’s reach while doing the most important work of your career.

About the team

Stripe’s mission is to increase the GDP of the internet. The promise of crypto—digital money and a new internet—is squarely aligned with that mission, and the Stripe Crypto team is dedicated to doing our part in bringing that promise to life. Our approach is firmly rooted in providing utility to the crypto ecosystem: our users need better building blocks to accept payments, move funds, and exchange between fiat and crypto. By focusing on these problems, we aim to build faster, more trustworthy, and higher quality crypto-native experiences.

We’re a fairly new and exceptionally fast-moving team within Stripe, having shipped multiple products in the past 12 months. In the next 12 months, we will bring those products to scale while also pursuing new ones. We’re looking for engineers with an interest in the cryptocurrency space who are invigorated by the opportunity to bring their existing expertise to benefit Stripe’s users. As a Staff Frontend Engineer on the team, you will lead our efforts to scale the frontend SDKs and UI components which form Stripe’s primary interface with the web3 community.

What you’ll do

Responsibilities

• Lead frontend development across the entire Stripe Crypto product suite.
• Teach and mentor both individual contributors and managers to become the next generation of leaders at Stripe. As a senior member on a fairly new team, you will be looked to for guidance.
• Participate in the evolution of Stripe’s crypto strategy.
• Identify and resolve long-term technical challenges across a broad range of areas, including frontend SDKs and UI components.
• Develop and execute against both short- and long-term roadmaps. Make effective tradeoffs that consider business priorities, user experience, and a sustainable technical foundation.

Who you are

We’re looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. 

Minimum requirements

• Have a strong technical background including 8+ years of experience building frontend systems and components that strike the right balance amongst simplicity, flexibility, and safety. Our frontend stack is React-based, but frameworks can be learned: we care much more about your general engineering skill than knowledge of a particular language or framework.
• Have a track record of directing technical investment in new products, allowing them to grow from fledgling efforts into thriving businesses.
• Have served as the technical lead and defined the roadmap for complex projects spanning multiple teams and functions.
• Measure your success in terms of business impact, not lines of code.
• Internalize the best ideas from across the organization and can humbly set a vision that others are excited to get behind.
• Work well cross-functionally and earn trust from co-workers at all levels. You are often cited as the inspiration for engineers that join your team.
• Care deeply about mentoring and growing engineers. Senior engineers feel they are able to learn from you.